Please Join Us for Salem Quarter's Spring Meeting
To Season Issues for Our Meeting for Business
Sunday, April 27, 2008
Hosted by South Shore Preparative Meeting
There are a number of important items for the Quarter to consider
including
- a Peace Minute
- Monthly Meetings’ and individual Friends’
thoughts on Immigration
- the situation in Kenya,
- Friends United
Meeting
- Sexual Ethics within New England Yearly Meeting.
SQM Ministry & Counsel will introduce these subjects before lunch and Friends will then be asked to think and talk about these matters over lunch. After lunch, instead of a formal program we will have worship sharing on these matters before moving on to our regular business.
The Business Meeting will include reports from Ministry &
Counsel, Funds Allocation, Nominations, Quaker Studies, Beacon Hill
Friends House, and any others who wish to speak.
It is the intention of Ministry & Counsel to ask that the Quarterly Meeting
reaffirm the Salem Quarter Minute supporting the
right to marry for same-sex couples - 10/31/2004 and the Salem Quarter minute Supporting Declaration of Religious
Support for Same-Gender Couples to Marry - 4/25/04.
Ministry and Counsel would also like SQM to designate the current informal group of Friends meeting to discuss immigration issues as an on-going ad hoc Committee of the Quarter.
Schedule:- 10:00 A.M. Worship with South Shore Meeting
- 11:15 A.M. Presentation of Matters for Worship Sharing in Afternoon
- Noon - 1:00 P.M. Brown bag lunch Hot and cold drinks will be available
- 1:00 - 2:00 P.M Worship Sharing Seasoning the issues which will come before us in business
- 2:00 - 3:30 P.M. Meeting for worship for Business
Directions: South Shore Meeting meets at New England Friends Home, 86 Turkey Hill Lane, Hingham, MA, - Take Rt. 3exit 14 to Rt. 228Morth. Go approximately five miles to the Hingham Library and turn right on Leavitt Street. Follow Leavitt Street to Turkey Hill Road and follow signs for New England Friends Home.
Upcoming Events
- 9:00 - 4:00, Saturday, April 26th
- Quaker Studies workshop
- Be Thou in the World
A One-Day workshop exploring our sense of individual and corporate mission - at Beacon Hill Friends House
- Fee $30
- For more information and to register, go to Quaker Studies home page
- Quaker Studies is a joint program of Salem Quarter and Beacon Hill Friends House.
Recent Events
The Consultation on Immigration
In Spring 2007, Salem Quarter held a consultation on how our country and our state and cities and towns are responding to immigrants. At Quarterly Meeting in Framingham, we decided to forward the report of the consultation to the meetings of the Quarter. The following minute was approved:
FROM the Minutes of the Salem Quarter Meeting of Fourth Month 22nd Day, 2007
2) The Immigration Consultation working group read its report. The Quarterly Meeting Clerk was requested to send the report, in the name of the Quarter, to all of the Quarter's monthly meetings. The monthly meetings are requested to provide written reply to the Quarter describing what the monthly meeting is doing, or wants to be doing about the concerns raised in the report.Meeting approved the Clerk sending the letter along with background material to the monthly meetings. The Clerk will request that meetings respond to the Quarter by March 1, 2008.
- SQMImCons.pdf the statement from the Salem Quarterly Meeting Consultation on Immigration
- seedsOfWar.pdf background information.
News of previous meetings.
Meetings in Our Quarter
Salem Quarterly Meeting is made up of nine meetings, one preparative meeting and several worship groups in the Greater Boston area. These links lead to web sites for the meetings which are on the internet and information sheets for those which do not have web sites.
Quarterly Meeting Schedule
Quarterly Meetings generally fall on the fourth Sunday of October, January and April. Our Summer Picnic date and location are set at our April meeting. Quarterly Meeting Ministry and Counsel committee meets about a month before the October and April meetings.
- 26 October 2008 - Wellesley Meeting